Word: labourers
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...yesterday's news is tomorrow's fish and chips paper, the following item would normally be in a landfill by now. After all, it's more than three years old. Back in 1998, the European arm of a big American energy company openly and legally gave Britain's ruling Labour party $21,000, paying for two tables at a dinner and sponsoring a reception at the party's annual conference in Blackpool...
...June he won a historic second term in office for the Labour Party. And since Sept. 11 Tony Blair has been The Man, America's best ally, a clear-sighted leader in war and diplomacy and head of the E.U.'s most diffident member state, whose dinner table other European leaders still clamor to grace...
This is vintage Blair. The man who added "New" to Labour has based his career on reconciling (his critics say spinning clouds of verbiage around) old opposites: the free market and socialist ideals, a left-wing party and big business support. In his first term that Third Way vision beguiled voters, but now they are getting impatient about feeble improvements to their schools, hospitals and railroads. Reform is turning out to be tougher to implement than Blair expected. And he has other troubles: the euro he wants Britain to join remains seriously unpopular, and his government has acquired an entrenched...
...This is vintage Blair. The man who added "New" to Labour has based his career on reconciling (his critics say spinning clouds of verbiage around) old opposites: the free market and socialist ideals, a left-wing party and big business support. In his first term that Third Way vision beguiled voters, but now they are getting impatient about feeble improvements to their schools, hospitals and railroads. Reform is turning out to be tougher to implement than Blair expected. And he has other troubles: the euro he wants Britain to join remains seriously unpopular, and his government has acquired an entrenched...
...June he won a historic second term in office for the Labour Party. And since Sept. 11 Tony Blair has been America's best ally, a clear-sighted leader in war and diplomacy and head of the E.U.'s most diffident member state, whose dinner table other European leaders still clamor to grace. Since George W. Bush took over the White House, Blair has founded his foreign policy on achieving trust with Washington's new gang of Texan-accented unilateralists. He disagrees with Bush on many topics, from the Kyoto climate change accords to how hard to lean on Israel...